Silhouetted against the setting sun a Palestinian man trains his horse on the beach in the Gaza strip. Photograph: Ali Ali/EPA

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Hooded demonstrators take part in a rally calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in front of the US Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington. Even though President Obama had promised to close it when he was first elected, the detention centre remains operational. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

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As the UK braces itself for a spell of cold weather, residents along Gower Street show know what a really snowy winter feels like as they try to dig out their cars after a snowstorm in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Photograph: Paul Daly/AP

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Violent demonstration continues to flare in Belfast over the council's decision to restrict the flying of the Union Flag to official days only. Young girls walk past a burning bus on O'Neills Road in the pro-British, Loyalist, Rathcool area of North Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photograph: Paul McErlane/EPA

A decorated elephant drinks water from a pipe near the Sangam, where the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers meet in Allahabad, India. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to make their way to the banks of Sangam during the Maha Kumbh festival which falls every 12th year. Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

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Commuters inside an old Belgian-made 'Line A' subway car in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 100-year-old wooden carriages, the oldest in the world still in operation, are scheduled to retire tomorrow and will be replaced by new cars made in China.

The interior of one of the carriages. Photographs: Javier Brusco/EPA

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More news from the Belarus animal world: Puppies sit in a kennel at a frontier guards' centre near the town of Smorgon northwest of Minsk. The centre prepares instructors with trained dogs for guarding Belarus' border and also sells puppies and dogs to civilians, which are not fit for service at the border. Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/reuters

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A bison feeding in the Nalibokskaya forest reserve near the village of Rum, some 50 miles west of Minsk, Belarus. Several dozens bison live in this reserve, which contains the largest forest in Belarus. Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

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A traffic policeman directs a motorcyclist during the untimed 7th stage of the Dakar Rally from Calama to Salta, Chile. Photograph: IVan Alvarado/reuters

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A firefighter shouts for support as he extinguishes the fire in a crab export factory at Thilawa industrial zone in Rangoon. Photograph: Reuters

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Desk job: Acrobats of the Hungarian 'Golden Power' team perform at the Grand Circus of Budapest.

Honda worker Phil Beckett speaks to the media as he leaves the Honda assembly plant after his shift in Swindon, where the car giant is to cut 800 jobs after a slump in demand across Europe. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA

A man rides past uncollected rubbish down a street in Granada. Dustmen have been on strike in the municipality of Granada to protest against the austerity cuts imposed by the local government. Photograph: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images

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Palestinian activists make a fire next to a tent they set up at an 'outpost' named Bab al-Shams (gate of the sun) in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, between Jerusalem and the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images

2.41pm GMT

Tonda, an endangered Rothschild Giraffe, takes stock of his new home at Chessington World of Adventures Resort.

Here Tonda meets new housemate Kismet for the very first time. Photographs: Rex Features

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Cruise ship Costa Concordia lies aground off the Italian island of Giglio, almost a year after its accident. Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images

Updated at 3.56pm GMT

2.05pm GMT

Members of a local winter swimming club try to warm up on a bank of the Yenisei river at -17C in Divnogorsk, Siberia.
See more around the world in 24 hours in pictures. Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

Chinese rescue workers search for buried residents from Gaopo village in south-west China's Yunnan province. A landslide has killed at least 36 people, including seven from a single family. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Updated at 3.58pm GMT

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Knees-up: the Movistar cycling team poses for a group picture at a presentation in Madrid. Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images

Updated at 3.59pm GMT

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The first phase of the Biswa Ijtema, one of the largest gatherings of Muslims in the world, begins on the banks of the Turag river in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photograph: Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/Demotix/Corbis

Updated at 4.05pm GMT

12.35pm GMT

Down under where it's much warmer: a member of the crowd bowls a tennis ball as Sri Lanka's Thisara Perera looks on during the one-day international match between Australia and Sri Lanka at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters

Updated at 4.06pm GMT

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A light covering of snow on the Northumberland border today. Much heavier snow is forecast over the weekend for the UK. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

Updated at 4.17pm GMT

12.24pm GMT

Ouch! A private security guard has bricks broken over his head as members of a private security firm demonstrate their 'immunity' to harm in Solo, central Java, Indonesia. Photograph: ZUMA/Rex Features

12.05pm GMT

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sits on a throne prior to the start of the Telecamere programme on the RAI television channel in Rome. Photograph: Alberto Lingria/AFP/Getty Images

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Members of the media surround British artist Paul Emsley after the unveiling of his portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge at the National Portrait Gallery in London. It hasn't gone down that well. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images

11.37am GMT

Children in the Glasshouse at RHS Wisley gardens near Woking, England look at butterflies. Rare and exotic butterflies have been placed in the Glasshouse for visitors to view until February 24. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Reflections of houses on the Herengracht, one of the city of Amsterdam's three main canals. 2013 will mark the 400th anniversary since construction began on Amsterdam's canal ring. Photograph: Jerry Lampen/AFP/Getty Images

The Duchess of Cambridge leaves London's National Portrait Gallery after viewing a newly-commissioned official painting of her. The oil on canvas by Glasgow-born artist Paul Emsley was done in two sittings. Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters

Shades of Fox Talbot: people look at the illuminated cloisters at Lacock Abbey as part of a new installation 'Into the Light – Illuminating Lacock Abbey' in Lacock, England. The historic abbey, which is seen as the birthplace of photography in Britain, was used to film scenes from Harry Potter. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Also in India, a Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, warms himself by jumping up and down before taking a dip at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, in Allahabad. Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Updated at 2.37pm GMT

10.13am GMT

An Indian soldier looks through a pair of binoculars outside a bunker near the fenced border with Pakistan in Suchetgarh, south-west of Jammu. Photograph: Mukesh Gupta/Reuters

Updated at 2.36pm GMT

10.10am GMT

On your head: dancer Simhamed Benhalima performs during the dress rehearsal of Don Quixote of the Trocadero at the Chaillot National Theatre in Paris. Photograph: Pierre Verdy/AFP/Getty Images

This photo, taken on January 9, shows a towering red-dust storm over the ocean, ahead of a cyclone approaching Onslow on the coast of western Australian. Tug boat worker Brett Martin, who captured the fearsome pictures 25 nautical miles offshore, reported conditions were glassy and flat before the storm hit. Photograph: Brett Martin/AFP/Getty Images